In 2026, the most successful people will be the ones with the most authority. What Dan Bongino did by stepping away for nine months to go work for the FBI was give himself the most unfair advantage in his industry. Nobody else currently on the air with a podcast in his niche can claim that they were Deputy Director of the FBI inside the Trump administration. Authority wins, and he just won big! You can do the same thing in your industry and you can do the same thing with a podcast and you can do

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino breaks down the nine-month operation that finally led to catching the January 6th pipe bomber: "My first meeting, I swore in, and I kid you not, 15 minutes later I said, when I get in there I want a full brief on this pipe bomber case on Day 1. And I looked at the case agent after getting a full brief on what they had done, and they had done a pretty extensive amount of work. They had chased down thousands of leads, six thousand-plus interviews had been conducted,